We live in a 10 house cul-de-sac about 50 yards from the local secondary school. The school itself has a 'turning circle' for cars to drop off pupils, so keeping the traffic flowing, but this arrangement is still inconvenient for some numbskulls who want to take their time. There are double yellow lines all around our road, which is ok because we can all park on our drives. Every day, cars drive in, pupils alight at their leisure, their parents finish their mobile phone calls, whilst we politely wait for them to finish their business so we can leave the road. This morning, a woman, who had clearly arrived early, parked in the middle of the road (because if you aren't touching the yellow lines, it doesn't count, right?) got out, enjoyed a cigarette, threw the butt in my garden, kissed her child goodbye made a phone call and drove off. Also, because this is quite rural, we have no pavements, so when I leave to walk DS to junior school, we take our lives in our hands dodging the cars swinging into the cul-de-sac to turn around.I know living near a school one has to put up with a certain amount of extra traffic at the usual times, but this is getting beyond a joke. The school have made provision for drop-offs so what is wrong with these people? Should I contact the school? The Police? Have a stand up row in the street as my mother would've done 30 years ago?! There, I feel better already.....